A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry

Poetics, Politics, Accent

By: Miryam Segal

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Hardcover | 2 January 2010

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With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 1920s. Segal takes into account the broad historical, ideological, and political context of this shift, including the construction of a national language, culture, and literary canon; the crucial role of schools; the influence of Zionism; and the leading role played by women poets in introducing the new accent. This meticulous and sophisticated yet readable study provides surprising new insights into the emergence of modern Hebrew poetry and the revival of the Hebrew language in the Land of Israel.

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"A brilliant expos of an alternative history and theory of the genesis of new accent, or Israeli, or Land of Israel-accented Hebrew... The work will become the new standard on the history of this development in modern Hebrew." NRobert Alter, University of California, Berkeley "A thorough, shrewd, and critical analysis." NHamutal Tsamir, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev "An extremely impressive piece of literary and historical scholarship... This study is an important contribution to the field of modern Hebrew literary scholarship and the history of Zionism." NHarry Fox, University of Toronto

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Preface
Introduction
The Pedagogic Domain and the Rise of New-Accent Hebrew
Natural, Synthetic and Cultivated Hebrews
Ruth the Moabite, Kedar Tents, and the Voice of the New -Accent Poetesses
Avraham Shlonsky and New-Accent Anxiety
The Conundrum of the National Poet Notes
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry

Poetics, Politics, Accent

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